| Cream Crested Legbar |
| Autosexing |
The Cream Legbar is a crested chicken which is a true
autosexing breed which means that you can tell the sex of the
chicks by the color of the feathers. It is an old pure breed which
originated in the 1930s as a cross between Brown Leghorns and
Barred Rock with some Araucana blood in them.
They are very firm, muscular birds with a wedge shaped body
which is broad at the shoulders and tapers towards the rear. The
wings are large carried close to the body and the back is long
and flat while the tail is held at 45° to the back. The head has a
strong beak and large single erect comb with five to seven even
spikes. They have a crest which lies at the back of the head
behind the comb which is small in the male and larger in the
female. The face is smooth with pendant cream or white
ear-lobes, long thin wattles and the neck is long and well
feathered. They have a yellow beak, red face, comb and wattles.
The yellow legs and feet are strong and unfeathered with four
evenly spaced toes.
The male weighs in at 6-7½ lb and the female is around 4½-6lb.
The male has cream barred neck hackles and the saddle
hackles are cream barred with dark grey and have cream tips.
The back and the shoulders are mostly cream barred with dark
grey. The wings have dark grey barred primaries and
secondaries with cream tips. The breast and tail are barred dark
grey and the crest is cream and grey. The female has softly
barred cream neck hackles. The breast is almost salmon
coloured while the body is silver-grey with broad barring. The
wings are speckled with grey and the tail is silvery grey with light
barring.
autosexing breed which means that you can tell the sex of the
chicks by the color of the feathers. It is an old pure breed which
originated in the 1930s as a cross between Brown Leghorns and
Barred Rock with some Araucana blood in them.
They are very firm, muscular birds with a wedge shaped body
which is broad at the shoulders and tapers towards the rear. The
wings are large carried close to the body and the back is long
and flat while the tail is held at 45° to the back. The head has a
strong beak and large single erect comb with five to seven even
spikes. They have a crest which lies at the back of the head
behind the comb which is small in the male and larger in the
female. The face is smooth with pendant cream or white
ear-lobes, long thin wattles and the neck is long and well
feathered. They have a yellow beak, red face, comb and wattles.
The yellow legs and feet are strong and unfeathered with four
evenly spaced toes.
The male weighs in at 6-7½ lb and the female is around 4½-6lb.
The male has cream barred neck hackles and the saddle
hackles are cream barred with dark grey and have cream tips.
The back and the shoulders are mostly cream barred with dark
grey. The wings have dark grey barred primaries and
secondaries with cream tips. The breast and tail are barred dark
grey and the crest is cream and grey. The female has softly
barred cream neck hackles. The breast is almost salmon
coloured while the body is silver-grey with broad barring. The
wings are speckled with grey and the tail is silvery grey with light
barring.
